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JACK LESLIE BAKER
Major · U.S. Air Force
March 30, 1930 – April 22, 1969
Service recordJack Leslie Baker, of St Augustine, Illinois, served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force. He died on April 22, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 23
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- March 30, 1930
- Home of record
- St Augustine, Illinois (Knox County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1969
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1969; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 23
- GERALD WAYNE STEPHENSSpecialist Four · April 21, 1969
- TIMOTHY RAY VANTONGERENPrivate First Class · April 21, 1969
- EARL SCOTT WEMPLESergeant Major · April 21, 1969
- CHARLES JACKSON WILSONLance Corporal · April 21, 1969
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.